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Client-side web security
To address attacks such as XSS, Magecart and other card skimming exploits found in modern eCommerce environments, the use of client-side web security methods is beginning to …

Work-from-home creates multitude of opportunities for leaks
Breaches of corporate and government data appear to be running at a level even higher than experts had feared going into stay-at-home orders due to COVID-19, the International …

The true costs incurred by businesses for technology downtime
Technology downtime is becoming a huge issue. IT challenges and poor digital work experiences are costing businesses tens of millions of dollars in lost work time and that the …

Let’s be realistic about our expectations of AI
Pop culture contains no shortage of intelligent robots. When the tool became viable and widely available in real life, people brought a number of enthusiastic but unrealistic …

Massive work-from-home movement exposes cybersecurity weaknesses
News coverage of the recent uptick in cyber threat activity is showing an incomplete picture. Despite the focus on VPN hacks and attacks at home, computers at more than 50,000 …

With a transition to remote work, network visibility becomes more critical than ever
More than 64 percent of organizations suffered at least one successful attack within the last year, and 59 percent believe lack of network visibility poses a high or very high …

Bad bot traffic increases, comprising almost one quarter of all website traffic
Bad bot traffic has increased compared to previous years, comprising almost one quarter (24.1%) of all website traffic and most heavily impacting the financial services …

Application performance becoming a key concern, influenced by increasing SD-WAN complexity
Application performance, impacted by network complexity at the edge and in the cloud, is the key enterprise concern this year for organizations implementing SD-WAN, according …

Try the (ISC)2 Utilizing Big Data course – a $200 value – for FREE!
For a limited time, (ISC)² is offering non-members FREE access to the Utilizing Big Data express learning course – a $200 value! You may know (ISC)² as the membership …

Multiple vulnerabilities discovered in smart home devices
ESET researchers found serious security vulnerabilities in three different home hubs: Fibaro Home Center Lite, HomeMatic Central Control Unit (CCU2) and eLAN-RF-003. Some of …

Five contingency best practices for SOCs to handle uncertainty
With a crush of new teleworkers and a significant increase in endpoints coming online, we’ve entered into a new reality. COVID-19 has disrupted our lives and the business …

Review: Cybersecurity – Attack and Defense Strategies
Yuri Diogenes, a professor at EC-Council University and Senior Program Manager at Microsoft, and Dr. Erdal Ozkaya, a prominent cybersecurity professional, advisor, author, …
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